painter, showed an oil, Moonlight Scene , at the 1869 Melbourne Public Library Exhibition. Soon afterwards she became a student of von Gué rard’ s at the National Gallery of Victoria’s art school. In 1872 three of her copies – Summer Afternoon and Winter Evening after Buvelot and Fern Gatherer after the Scottish painter Robert Herdman – were shown at the Victorian Exhibition and at the London International Exhibition following (among other copies by von Guérard’s students) and were highly praised. They reappeared for sale in the Victorian section of the 1872 Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition at Sydney. An original Landscape in the Botanical Gardens , another a view from a photograph, and an original Sketch from Nature were also included in the preliminary Victorian show and sent to London, the Age remarking that her Botanical Gardens paintings 'possess great merit for the freedom with which the subjects are handled’, but that her sketch from nature 'appears hurriedly done, and does not possess the same artistic touch’. All were oils. At this time Miss Emmeline Pritchard was living in Park Hill East, Melbourne.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
